We’ve been releasing a lot of new Aerial and Bird’s Eye imagery lately, so we thought it was time to do the same for our maps.
The keen-eyed among you may have noticed that we released maps of many new areas over the weekend on Multimap.com. We’ve combined our street level maps in Europe, with maps from Microsoft Virtual Earth that provide you with improved country and region level maps worldwide and new street level coverage of including…
Asia - Japan
Africa - Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, South Africa
Eastern Europe -Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia
Central and South America - Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile
These new maps are available on Multimap.com today, and will be available via our Multimap API for business customers and Open API for developers over the next few weeks.
Our friends on the Microsoft Virtual Earth team have also just delivered another 20TB of Aerial and Bird’s Eye images, which also includes some new UK imagery. A big thank you to them all!!
Enjoy!!
Bird’s Eye!??
May 15th, 2008
When Matthew announced that we now have Bird’s Eye images in Australia, courtesy of Microsoft Virtual Earth, I messaged him afterwards and said “do you think most users actually know what Bird’s Eye is? They might get the wrong idea…” (we haven’t sent the Captain to sell Turkey Twizzlers in Oz for example). Little did I know he would challenge me to try to explain what it’s all about to you all, so here goes…